Thanks Ayako, Nina and V!
The Beijing Internal Film Festival is officially over. Any pertinent links containing additional photos and videos will be collected in this post.
The coverage of the festival by the Chinese press was amazing and comprehensive and many thanks to them for giving us all the opportunity to see Keanu Reeves’ participation in the events. Special thanks to Ayako, Nina and V! (alphabetical order) for being ‘johnny on the spots’ and tweeting links or emailing them in.
There have been many photos of Keanu walking the blue carpet but I don’t recall any of him scratching his nose so you many want to check out Yoda and have a look.
There is a nice slide show on ent.sina with photos that were taken during one of their interviews. I just got around to looking at these closely and they are quite lovely.
At the end of the Sino-Foreign Film CO-operation forum, their was a hand print ceremony. Letv has a news coverage clip of this.
M.tv.sohu has a clip up of Keanu’s interview on the blue carpet.
Shipei has posted an interview with Keanu and photos of him with the stuffed penguin.
Hunantv has a couple of nice photos including one of Keanu sitting with a MOTC cast members.
Getty Images thumbnail page has now been updated. You can see that most have appeared in the Chinese press.
Update: Interview in Chinese is here.
It contains much of what we heard in the on camera interviews that were in english. Of note from briefly looking at this in the google translator, he was asked about the fact he can drink his Chinese friends under the table near the end. Also at the very end the interviewed said the news seems to indicate you will join a new movie that is an American drama (I assume they meant Passengers) and he said, “No, no.” Don’t know what to make of that.
Update 2X: Some outstanding photos of Keanu from the Sino-Foreign FIlm Co-operation forum are here. Portrait shots for tv.sohy interview are here, More press conference shots some of which we haven’t seen yet are here and here. Here’s more from BIFF.
Photos are in the gallery.